Fly-catcher.



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Specification o Letters Patent.

recente@ nenne, rei o application aieanay ir, teit. serial no. cana.

To all 'whom t may concern.' i

Bye it lmown that l, FRANK ltna, a citlzen I of the llnited States, residing at San lll-rancisco, in the county of San Francisco and State-of California, have lnvented new and :useful :improvements in Fly-Catchers, of which the following is a specification.

'lhe object of the present invention to provide an improved catcher for catching dies and other'bugs.

ln the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a longitudinal section of my improved ily catcher;` Fig. 2 is a broken end view i thereof. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. l; Fig. l is a section on the line d-d of Fig; 3.

Referring to' the drawing, l indicates an electric motor casi/ng to which is connected one end of a handle 2', tc the other end of which handle is connected a tube 3, throngh which extends a lamp cord l leading from a plug 5 adapted to be connected with any ordinary electric lamp socket. rlhrough said handle extends ay switch 6 for electrically connecting the wires of the lamp cord to the terminals of the motor. 0n the end of said motor casing remote from the handle is secured eccentric thereto a .fan casing 7', the outermost portion of which is enlarged, as shown at 8, to fo an air-receiving charnber. @n the motor shaft is secured in said fan casing a centrifugal fan 9, the blades 10 of. said fan, although almost in Contact with the casing at one portion thereof, being at a considerable distance therefrom at another portion,z lln the enter end of said fan casingis a round hole ll of the saine diameter as the fan. From said fan casing leads a conduit l2 which bends so as to be finally directed parallel .with the rnotor shaft, and upon the open end of said conduit is secured i `a receptacle i3 of woven wire,

into the receptacle with such violence that by far. vthe greater portion of them are destroyed or rendered incapable of escape.

l have found that the circumferential enlargement 8 is essential to the successful working of this apparatus. f

llt kvis found that with this apparatus places such as butcher shops,'restaurants and the like, commonly visited by dies,can be cleared of dies ina very short space of time.

lln combination an electric motor, a centrifugal suction fan on the shaft of the motor, an eccentric fan casing around said shaft and secured to the motor casing, said fan casingl being enlarged at its front end to form an air-receiving chamber, said front .end being apertured, said casing having a v FRANK Witnesses:

Francie lill, Winona, D.. E. lltrcnianne, 

